私は早速其家へ引き移りました。私は最初來た時に未亡人と話をした座敷を借りたのです。其所は宅中で一番好い室でした。本郷邊に高等下宿といつた風の家がぽつ／＼建てられた時分の事ですから、私は書生として占領し得る最も好い間の樣子を心得てゐました。私の新らしく主人となつた室は、それ等よりもずつと立派でした。移つた當座は、學生としての私には過ぎる位に思はれたのです。
translation
"I immediately moved into that house." I rented the tatami room where I talked with the widow when I first came. It was my favorite room in the house. It was around the time when a high-class lodging house was built in the Hongo area, so I knew the best way to occupy it as a student. My new master's room was much nicer than all of them. As a student, the seat I moved to was too much for me.
kanji (pronunciations & definitions)
| 私: I (わたし), me, I (あたくし), I (あたし), I (アタシ) | 早速: at once (さっそく), immediately, without delay, promptly | 引: -off (price reduction) (びき), discount, -coated, -plated | 最初: beginning (さいしょ), outset, first, onset |
| 未亡人: widow (みぼうじん) | 話: talk (はなし), speech, chat, conversation, topic | 座敷: tatami room (ざしき), tatami mat room, formal Japanese room, dinner party in a tatami room (esp. when a geisha or maiko attends) | 其所: there (place relatively near listener) (そこ), there (place just mentioned), that place, then (of some incident just spoken of), that (of point just raised) |
| 好: friendship (ぎ), friendship (よしび), friendship (よしみ), friendly relations, friendly relations | 室: room (しつ), wife (of someone of high rank), scabbard, Chinese “Encampment” constellation (one of the 28 mansions), greenhouse (むろ) | 本郷: one’s hometown (ほんごう) | 高等: high class (こうとう), high grade |
| 下宿: boarding (げしゅく), lodging, board and lodging, room and board, boarding house | 風: swing (ふり), shake, wave, swinging, appearance | 家: house (いえ), residence, dwelling, family, household | 時分: time (じぶん), hour, season, time of the year |
| 書生: student (しょせい), student who performs housework in exchange for meals and lodging, houseboy (attending school or university) | 占領: occupying (せんりょう), having (an area) all to oneself, military occupation, possession, capture | 得: profit (とく), advantage, benefit, gain, rebirth in paradise, entering nirvana | 最: the most (さい), the extreme, prime, conspicuous |
| 間: space (between) (あいだ), space (between) (あわい), gap, gap, interval | 心得: knowledge (こころえ), understanding, rules, regulations, guideline | 新: new (しん), neo-, newness, novelty, Gregorian calendar | 主人: head (of a household) (しゅじん), proprietor (of a store), proprietress, landlord, landlady |
| 立派: splendid (りっぱ), fine, handsome, elegant, imposing | 學生: student (esp. a university student) (がくせい) | 過: surplus- (か), excess-, over-, per- (chemical with more of a certain element than found in other compounds of the same constituents) | 位: throne (くらい), crown, (nobleman’s) seat, government position, court rank |